Backpass: (Sound of a Balloon Deflating)

This Backpass’ll be short on cool tactical gifs and less detailed than usual. That’s because I spent most of the game trying to simultaneously watch the match while putting up a funny little Jewish hut known as a Sukkah. I assumed that I could watch the detailed replay Monday, only to find that MLS Live has a 48 hour blackout on replays of nationally televised games, and the Watch ESPN app hates me and just did the whole spinning wheel of death thing instead of actually playing the game. So, in between snatches of building this silly booth , I caught the following core things about this game:

Calvert’s fine, and the kid deserved a chance. Playing Doyle again at the number ten is clearly a…